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taxonomy | unborn |

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and unborn

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while unborn is (countable) a single offspring at any stage of gestation.

As an adjective unborn is

not yet born; yet to come; future.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    unborn

    English

    (wikipedia unborn)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • not yet born; yet to come; future.
  • not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
  • existing without birth or beginning.

    • Noun

  • (countable) A single offspring at any stage of gestation.
  • * 2009 , Catherine Playoust & Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, "The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature", in Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (eds. Vanessa R. Sasson & Jane Marie Law), Oxford University Press (2009), ISBN 9780195380040, page 176:
    • Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.
  • (uncountable) offspring collectively.
    • Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn .

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